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Did you mean 'customer support'?
by krmboya 3y ago
Did you mean 'customer support'?
- evilduck 3y agoProbably not. Customer success are teams dedicated to keeping customers happy and paying and finding ways to ensure that they remain customers. Customer support is typically who you contact when you don't have any leverage and encounter a problem. If you spend a million dollars a year on a contract, you will typically have someone you know by name and meet with regularly who will legitimately hear your feedback and work to resolve your problems.
- satvikpendem 3y agoHow is that not just another name for customer support? They're both kinds of support for the customer, even if one has a more palatable name. In my experience, one is simply an alias for the other, as the sibling commenter notes, I have not seen those two roles split out.
- evilduck 3y agoIn my own experience, I've seen them as distinct groups from customer support both at the companies I've worked for and companies I've worked with. I view it more as an alias to account rep, but sometimes people account reps will delegate to. Customer support will file a ticket for me when something isn't working. Maybe help if something on their script matches existing known issues. Customer success will proactively see that I'm not getting the expected value from my already committed spending and utilization and reach out to make sure everything is configured right so that I renew next year.
- satvikpendem 3y agoI see what you mean. In my experience, I've seen those usually be called account representatives as you mentioned, while customer success was still just customer support under another name.
- NhanH 3y agoCustomer success is an alias of customer support.